EVENT, SCREENING
Seven Chances
Ongoing
Preceded by The Playhouse
With live piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin
Dir. Buster Keaton. 1925, 56 mins. 35mm. With Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer. Buster Keaton is a bachelor who must get married by 7:00 p.m. on his 27th birthday—today—in order to inherit seven million dollars. One of his most visually dazzling and precisely choreographed films climaxes with Buster being chased by a horde of prospective brides.
The Playhouse
Dirs. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline. 1921, 20 mins. Keaton plays every cast member in a vaudeville show in a masterful short film filled with optical effects, doubling, and other forms of trickery.
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